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The report shows that as a result of the law, many cases brought by prisoners seeking the protection of the courts against dangerous conditions of confinement, or a remedy for sexual assault or other abuse by staff or inmates, have been thrown out of court.

This report provides the most comprehensive data on anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) violence in the United States. This report provides recommendations for ways to advance education and prevention of hate violence before it occurs and ways to hold public institutions more accountable to responding to violence when it occurs. It is written by a coalition of 35 LGBT anti-violence programs in 25 states across the country.

This is the ninth annual TIP Report; it seeks to increase global awareness of the human trafficking phenomenon by shedding new light on various facets of the problem and highlighting shared and individual efforts of the international community, and to encourage foreign governments to take effective action against all forms of trafficking in persons. The PDF is a large file, for a breakdown of sections, see: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2009/index.htm

This scientific study, conducted in partnership with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), corroborates women's accounts of rape and other crimes against humanity that they have experienced in Darfur, as well as rape and deprivations of basic needs in refugee camps in Chad.

The report looks closely at the conduct of the army's 14th brigade as an example of the wider problem of sexual violence by soldiers. The brigade has been implicated in many acts of sexual violence in North and South Kivu provinces, often in the context of massive looting and other attacks on civilians. Despite ample information about the situation, military, political, and judicial authorities have failed to take decisive action to prevent rape.

"In April 2009 the international NGO Transgender Europe (TGEU) in cooperation with the multi-lingual scientific Online-Magazine 'Liminalis - a Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance' started a new research project on collecting, monitoring, and analyzing reports of murdered trans people on a worldwide scale. The first step of this ongoing research project is the so called Trans Murder Monitoring Project, the preliminary results of which are published here at this early stage of the project in order to inform about the project and to win supporters and cooperation partners."

The report addresses three primary topics: 1) current levels of risk behavior and health outcomes; 2) disparities by sex, age, race/ethnicity, and geographic residence; and 3) trends over time.& The data presented in this report indicate that many young persons in the United States engage in sexual risk behavior and experience negative reproductive health outcomes.

This article is excerpted from the Applied Research paper by the same author, offering a one-page summary defining the concepts of parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome, and a 6-step approach for custody cases involving domestic violence.

Victim/survivor files and program files pose the risk that confidential information about victim/survivors could be released, breaching their right to privacy, undermining their legal interests and/or compromising their safety. Domestic violence and sexual assault programs have a fiduciary responsibility to protect confidential communications and records of victim/survivors that they serve.

Record keeping in advocacy programs is necessary and important for several different purposes. But, record keeping also can be fraught with challenges. The goal of this fact sheet is to offer some guidelines about client record keeping for programs to consider.